The Irish standard., 1887-05-07

F; IRISH STANDARD: /,
land is to evict him (cheers), by show.
ing them that the man who is evicted III
Ireland Today in the peoples cause is
no longer homeless or friendless out
cast, but that. on the contrary, he is a
man loaded with affection aud with
hard cash by his fellow-countrymen
(cheers). That is what every man who
subscribes to this fund will be doing.
You will be showing the landlords that
from this day fo III in Ireland the curse
of eviction vii come home to roost
(cheers). We will prove to them that
for the future in Ireland the sufferings
that once tell on the heads of the ten
ant will 1ecoil for the future upon the
head of the rack-renter> (cheers.) De-
pend upon it that the rack-renters Of
these counties observe the list of sub
scriptions in the Lelnster Leader, and
contrast the lot of Denis Kllbriue and
John Dunno with the lot of Lord Lans-
downe with his thousands a year in
prison in his palace in Canada. Depend
upon it, the Cosbie's and the Castle
towns and La Touche, and the rest Of
them will find food for wholesome ref1ec-
ton (cheers.) They will begin to See
coercion and eviction in different light
from what they once did in the good old
times or the bad old times that are gone
for ever (cheers). don't know whether
you have cast your eye over the news
from Canada for the last few weeks in
the papers. Ii you did, can you doubt
that Lord Lansdowne bitterly rues the
day ever he laid a bailiff's finger on any
home in Luggacurren? Do you doubt
that in his secret heart this moment he
is tearing his hair, and cursing the day
that he ever quarrelled with as honest
and as Woodworking a body of tenantry
as ever landlord was blessed with?
And all rather than yield a miserable,
miserable abatement, far and away less
than the sub-commissloners have been
giving lpon every estate round here;
all because MIR. Townsend Trench
(groans) thought that the Marquis of
Lansdowne was about the safest man
that he could set up as an Aunt Sally in
the cause of the bankrupt rackrenters in
the Queens county. Lord Lansdowne
has been defending himself in the news
papers. That is all right enough, but
his defence must have been very ram
shackled and vary shaky one, because,
like every man that is beaten, he has
given over arguing and has taken to
threats. Lord Lansdowne threatens
that if 60 across to Canada l will be
logged by bailiffs and thrown into
prison. That is droll sort of threat to
address to an Irish politician (aughter),
because it is always perfectly possible
that will be arrested if I goto Canada,
but there is very much stronger pos
sibility that I will be arrested if Istay
at home daughter. and cheers). will
only say this-I should be the last man
in the world, if it could be avoided, to
introduce struggle or disturbance into
the free and happy land of Canada. We
owe nothing to the Canadian people
but gratitude and affection for all the
and generosity that they
have extended towards Ireland (cheers.)
But we have duty to our own people,
and we owe it to the Canadian people
as well, to expose the cruel and bar
barous uses to which their Governor
General is putting Canadian money
here in this land, from which one-third
Of the Canadian people derive their
blood and the dearest aspirations of
their hearts (cheers.) have heard them
sing that soul-stirring ballad
deep in Canadian woods we've met,
From one bright island flown;
Great is the land we tread, but yet
Our hearts are with our own"
If Lord Lansdowne presses us to test
am very much surprised if the people
Of Canada will tolerate these Dublin
Castle methods that Lord Lansdowne
proposes to introduce amongst them of
dealing with an inconvenient political
by shadowing him with spies
and threatening to cast him into prison
'cheers.) Well, we will see about that
by-and-by. Lord Lansdowne has re-
sorted 70 another; and a more discredit-
able trick to intimidate us from going
to Canada. He has circulated state
ments that he has been receiving threat
Dning letters, and that he and his family
are afraid to stir outside their palace
gates for fear that something horrible
might happen to them laughter.) All.
this is a dishonest and discreditable ar
tiice on Lord Lansdowne's part to
Dvade public criticism and to excite a
spurious sympathy by pretending that
we are dynamitars and assassins
[cheers.) lie knows thoroughly we'll
that the men who would do anything of
the kind would intiict a deadly stab on
the Irish cause. He knows that right